as in militant
one who urges or attempts to cause a war
the hawks were claiming that without war there could be no peace
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as in to peddle
to sell from place to place usually in small quantities
a determined bootstrapper who went from hawking newspapers on the street corner to running a media empire
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Recent Examples of hawk
Matt Clinch,sam Meredith, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2024
The fiscal chaos that hawks warn will eventually play out in America is already underway in France.
—Courtenay Brown, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024
Annie Palmer,katie Tarasov, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
How will traditional retailers compete when the industry continues to demonstrate technical clumsiness with basic services like self-checkout, while going up against whiz kids hawking merchandise on TikTok?
—Greg Petro, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
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Noun
Doves tend to prefer low interest rates in an effort to boost economic growth, whereas hawks are more concerned about inflation and its effects on society.
—Matt Clinch,sam Meredith, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2024
The fiscal chaos that hawks warn will eventually play out in America is already underway in France.
—Courtenay Brown, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024
Verb
Launched in 2000, Amazon’s marketplace allows businesses to hawk their goods on the company’s site.
—Annie Palmer,katie Tarasov, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
How will traditional retailers compete when the industry continues to demonstrate technical clumsiness with basic services like self-checkout, while going up against whiz kids hawking merchandise on TikTok?
—Greg Petro, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
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The online Trump Store peddled bars of soap wrapped in a drawing of the White House.Zach Everson, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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This message has been amplified by conspiracy theorists who have peddled false claims that the use of machines to count ballots allows results to be rigged.Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2024
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Today, women’s accounts for around 15 percent of sales but is only sold through the Billy Reid channels, and is not wholesaled.Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 11 Oct. 2024
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What was more concerning for Ford, though, was that a Beetle wholesaled for $465 less than the Ford Fairlane and $280 less than the Falcon.Larry Printz, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2024
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Kickstart Your Day with The Morning Jolt Young people will have to trust me: This is just what the Left said: that the Kremlin was peace-loving, or peace-seeking, while American warmongers made the world dangerous.Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Oct. 2024
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The movie undoubtedly lays the wood on several in Bush’s inner circle — Thandie Newton’s impression of Condoleezza Rice is particularly mean — as W. ponders what happens when a useful idiot falls under the sway of warmongers with bad intel.Will Leitch, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2024
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Election 2024 live updates:Trump attacks Cheney and calls her a 'war hawk' Sign-up for Your Vote: Text with the USA TODAY elections team.Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
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But critics of Washington’s hyper-aggressive foreign policy need to understand that the flight of many of the worst war hawks from the Republican Party does not mean the GOP has returned to its non-interventionist roots.Connor Okeeffe, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Hawk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hawk. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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